The University of Findlay will host
a public lecture by visiting executive and UF alumna Diane L. Pleiman at noon Thursday,
April 1, in the William and Martha Lape Great Hall, located in the Virginia B.
Gardner Fine Arts Pavilion on campus. She also will talk with health
professions students during selected classes.
Pleiman
is vice president of hospital operations at Miami Valley Hospital, the largest
hospital in the Dayton area. Since being named to the position in March 2007,
Pleiman has been responsible for the hospital’s Shaw Emergency Trauma Center,
CareFlight Air and Mobile services, Level I trauma program, medical imaging
services, laboratory, outpatient clinics and the neuroscience product
line.
Previously,
Pleiman was director of nursing financial operations, patient placement and staffing
for the hospital. Prior to that, she was business manager of nursing and
business manager of the emergency and trauma center.
She began her career as a
nuclear medicine technologist at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Sidney before
moving to Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy and eventually to Miami Valley
Hospital in 1999.
Pleiman
holds a master of business administration degree from Wright State University
and a bachelor of arts in nuclear medicine technology from The University of
Findlay.
She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Wright State
University, where she taught “Finance for the Nursing Administrator.”
Within her
community, Pleiman is on the boards of New Choices Inc. and the Covenant
Society, a past member of the Epilepsy Foundation of Western Ohio board, has
served as a corporate partner volunteer with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra,
and is a United Way Young Leader’s Circle member.
Pleiman is a lector and
greeter and serves on the Parish Council at St. Michael’s Catholic Church.
She was the
recipient of the Dayton Business Journal’s 2008 40 Under 40 Award and was named
the 2009 Wright State University School of Graduate Studies Outstanding Alumna of the
Year.
Diane and
her husband, Mark, live in Fort Loramie with their two children, Elizabeth and
Caleb.
